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A 36-year-old man developed two eschars (localized skin lesions) after visiting a rural field in Manzini, Swaziland. He has general weakness, myalgia, night sweats and sore throat. He reports having no rash…

A previously healthy 35-year-old male presents with sudden onset of fever, fatigue, myalgia, and headache. He reports recent travel to an Ebola-endemic region in West Africa. The patient presented with signs…

Eva is a 50-year-old Caucasian woman who presents to the clinic with complaints of hand and feet swelling to the point of visible deformities. Her joint pain wakes her up several times during the night and she has morning stiffness for several hours.

METABOLISM: A GUIDING FORCE FOR IMMMUNITY Metabolism in simple terms refers to the cellular reactions that lead to energy generation from food such as breaking down proteins into amino acids, carbohydrates into simple sugars such as glucose, fats into fatty acids, etc. It is organised into different metabolic pathways to maximise the capture of energy Read More

06 July 2023

Recently, a group from the Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging Associated Diseases, studied how macrophage fumarate hydratase restrains mtRNA-mediated interferon production…

Norberto, a 23-year old white male in his third relapse of a B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) has been treated with an infusion of autologous CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells (CAR-T cells). Ten days later, he felt severe discomfort in the middle of the night…

15th November

In addition to talks by Prof Abbas, Day 3 of Immuno-Jaipur included talks on autoimmunity and chronic inflammation. Prof. Bernhard Fleisher gave a talk on autoimmunity in the central nervous system where he discussed various autoimmune diseases such as Myasthenia Gravis, Encephalitis, Multiple sclerosis. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease…

A five-month-old male infant was brought into the emergency department by parents with hypotonicity (reduced muscular tone) and drowsiness that began the evening before. The infant presented with refractory atopic dermatitis and recent weight loss.

Peter, a 60 year-old Caucasian policeman, complains of a painful burning sensation in his lower extremities lasting for several months. Lower limbs petechiae (small purple/red hemorrhagic spots) appeared one week ago.

A 7 year old girl presented to her local hospital for the second time in 3 months with arthralgia, a migratory skin rash and fever for 5 days. She was admitted and within 2 days…